I'm at the inlaws in the country. Their only internet connection is via a USB cellular stick attached to their Windows Vista machine. The machine doesn't have a wifi card, but it does have a network card.

I've connected the computer (via the network card and ethernet cable) to a DLINK DIR-601 router (in one of the LAN ports, not WAN). The hope is to create a wifi network in the house that can connect to the outside world via the cell connection.

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Hook the Ethernet port to the WAN port of the router and set it (the
router) to get it's WAN IP via DHCP.

Setup the router's LAN side to provide DHCP (setup with different IP
network range from teh WAN-side) and wireless.

Connect your notebook via wireless to the router.

ICS will translate and route the Internet traffic to and from the first LAN (between the Vista machine and the router's WAN port), and then the router will translate and route that traffic in and out of the second LAN (the wireless network).